Reviews

ADF have expanded their line-up and brought in Adrian Sherwood as executive producer. However, their energy and principles are the same as those that infused and undergirded 2000's Community Music. Asylum-seekers, post-September 11 politics and the optimism engendered by ADF's contacts with cells of cultural resistance are covered here, with an angry gusto drawn from punk, dub, techno and bhangra.

Paisley meets flannel in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Danish duo's debut garage-rock blast

Ex-Smashing Pumpkin man teams up with David Pajo, formerly of Slint

Reissue of rarities, live stuff, Peel sessions, plus unreleased 1993 album

Introspective seasonal offering from black poet-singer and collaborating pianist

Essential purchase for fans of electro and German new wave

Nolte kicks smack in Monte Carlo

Seymour Hoffman tour de force as grieving loner

Action emperor John Woo raises hell in the Pacific for this noisy WWII epic, which is grounded in real events. The grand-canvas battle scenes rule, but Nic Cage's hammy turn as an emotionally scarred hero charged with guarding a Navajo code-talker lets the side down. Still, the battle sequences are up there with Sam Fuller's best. DVD EXTRAS: Several backstage documentaries, commentary by a genuine Navajo code-talker, shared chat between Cage and co-star Christian Slater.